And just in case you’re the type who can’t get enough of insightful interviews with television pioneers (and who isn’t?), we’ve created a page listing all the interviews Jen has conducted, plus all the ones for which she did the background research.

Wow…that seems like a lot of TV, doesn’t it? I honestly don’t see how more than one of the probationary shows can work its way into the regular rotation, even though we really like what we’ve seen of both Heroes and Studio 60, and I really want to like The Nine.

Saturday

Saturday morning we returned to Burbank to host a playdate with Pooter’s old gang. A good time was had by all, but it was even more special for Leah, who was celebrating her first birthday.

After the playdate, we returned home to watch the football game and have some pizza with Gigi and Papa. It was a nailbiter (something we Trojan fans aren’t used to), but we pulled it out in the end, 28-22, over Washington State. That brings the Trojans’ streaks to:

36 straight regular-season wins

25 straight Pac-10 wins

17 straight road wins

After the game, Coach Pete delivered a bit of level-headed wisdom to those spoiled fans who are prone to panic everytime we don’t win by 30:

“This is a program that needs experiences to learn from and to grow and we’re getting challenged… The conference is stout and we’re fighting our tails off.”

Below, we see Freshman safety Taylor Mayes picking off Wazzoo QB Alex Brink to end the game:

Sunday

Sunday morning Jen and Tiari took Pooter and Devanae Mickey’s Magic Show at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, where they met up with the whole Audette clan (Jon, Jen, Becca, and Emma) plus a couple dozen other members of the Burbank playgroup.

Brand-spanking-new Ferrari F430 on a flatbed tow truck; probably being delivered to her new owner. This car has been described as “the greatest Ferrari ever,” and you can buy two of them for less than the cost of that Mercedes SLR, with change left over for gas and insurance.

I kept expecting a dozen guys in dark blue tactical gear to jump out with M-16s at the ready…

Yellow Ferrari F355 Berlinetta. This guy was driving like a major ****. I think it’s quite likely that his car will soon be featured on this web site: http://www.wreckedexotics.com/355/

…Goldman Sachs estimates that the housing sector nationwide could shed 1.5 million to 2 million jobs over the next several years as the industry retrenches. The result could be to reduce total U.S. employment growth to a monthly average of 100,000 jobs in 2007, from an average of 150,000 a month over the last three years, the firm said.

Direct employment in real-estate-related industries is just part of the equation when measuring the sector’s influence on the economy. There also is the so-called wealth effect that housing prices have on consumers’ spending.

Rocketing home prices over the last decade provided many Americans with an income windfall, either from the outright sales of houses at a profit or from mortgage refinancings or credit lines that allowed homeowners to cash in some of their accumulated equity.

A study coauthored by then-Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan last year estimated that mortgage-equity withdrawals tied to surging real estate values added $600 billion to consumers’ disposable income in 2004 alone, making up about 7% of the total that year…